Thus we see coming to pass something like the proposed plan of Jefferson and other statesmen who a hundred years ago advocated the expansion of slavery to lessen the evil of the institution by distributing its burdens.[28] The migration of intelligent blacks, however, has been attended with several handicaps to the race.

The large part of the black population is in the South and there it will stay for decades to come.

The southern Negroes, therefore, have been robbed of their due part of the talented tenth.

The educated blacks have had no constituency in the North and, consequently, have been unable to realize their sweetest dreams of the land of the free.

In their new home the enlightened Negro must live with his light under a bushel.